Era assim a casa do leme do antigo paquete ANGRA DO HEROÍSMO, comprado em 1966 pela Empresa Insulana de Navegação à companhia Zim Lines, de Haifa, para quem o navio tinha sido construído na Alemanha em 1955 com o nome ISRAEL.
Era gémeo do AMÉLIA DE MELLO, da Sociedade Geral, e fez a carreira da Madeira e Açores até Outubro de 1973. Efectuou ainda diversos cruzeiros e fretamentos militares com tropas para a Guiné. Foi vendido em Abril de 1974 para desmantelar em Espanha.
Bridge of the former Portuguese passenger liner ANGRA DO HEROÍSMO built in Hamburg in 1955 as the ISRAEL for Zim Lines and purchased in 1966 by INSULANA. This beautiful turbine steamer operated on the Lisbon -Madeira - Azores service and did also several cruises and trooping voyages to Guinea Bissau. Withdrawn from service in October 1973 and sold for scrap in Spain in April 1974.
Her sister ZION also became Portuguese in 1966: as the AMÉLIA DE MELLO, sold in 1972 to become the ITHACA and later the DOLPHIN.
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Era gémeo do AMÉLIA DE MELLO, da Sociedade Geral, e fez a carreira da Madeira e Açores até Outubro de 1973. Efectuou ainda diversos cruzeiros e fretamentos militares com tropas para a Guiné. Foi vendido em Abril de 1974 para desmantelar em Espanha.
Bridge of the former Portuguese passenger liner ANGRA DO HEROÍSMO built in Hamburg in 1955 as the ISRAEL for Zim Lines and purchased in 1966 by INSULANA. This beautiful turbine steamer operated on the Lisbon -Madeira - Azores service and did also several cruises and trooping voyages to Guinea Bissau. Withdrawn from service in October 1973 and sold for scrap in Spain in April 1974.
Her sister ZION also became Portuguese in 1966: as the AMÉLIA DE MELLO, sold in 1972 to become the ITHACA and later the DOLPHIN.
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